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  <title>MediaGoblin 0.3.2: Goblinverse</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2012-12-20 10:00" />
  <meta name="author" content="Deb Nicholson" />
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  <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_banner.png"
       alt="MediaGoblin 0.3.2: Goblinverse banner" />
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  <i>As you can see, our rockin' space pilot goblin is fixing up
    her ship with a part she's printed out which she found on a
    MediaGoblin site using our new 3d model support!</i>
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<p>Things are starting to get back to normal around here. After the
tremendous outpouring of support you showed us during the
<a href="/pages/campaign.html">fundraising campaign</a>, we were a bit
winded. There are still stickers and goodies to mail out (we haven't
forgotten!) but we also found time to push out one final 2012
release. A few things had been teetering on the edge of finished and a
few things needed to get smoothed out to pave the way for a fantastic
2013.</p>

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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_3d_support_render.png">
    <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_3d_support_render-scaled.png"
         alt="3d support!" />
  </a>
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<p>We've blogged about this, we've collared people at holiday parties,
we've done everything but make a Gangnam Style parody video about
it... but in case you haven't heard, you can now upload 3d models to
MediaGoblin, whoo! This means you can build your own
free-as-in-freedom Thingiverse replacement and start printing out
objects. We support the sharing of STL and OBJ files. MediaGoblin can
also call on <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a> to create
nice image previews during upload. Or if you prefer, you can use
JavaScript to display live 3d previews in WebGL-enabled browsers (we
use the
<a href="https://github.com/tbuser/thingiview.js">thingiview.js</a>
library to do this).</p>

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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_3d_support_webgl.png">
    <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_3d_support_webgl-scaled.png"
         alt="3d support!  WebGL version!" />
  </a>
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<p>Thanks again to <a href="http://lulzbot.com/">LulzBot</a> for
sponsoring this exciting advancement in MediaGoblin's offerings!</p>

<p>We really want 2013 to be the year of the MediaGoblin plugin. We
made it possible for plugins to include their own models. We also have
a working API, which means there is a nice standard way for you to
hook your extensions to MediaGoblin. You can also go the other way and
use webhooks or callbacks to make it easier to connect MediaGoblin
into other applications. This makes it possible to start on
applications for submitting media from all different types of
devices. We've enabled OAuth support so that MediaGoblin will be able
to securely talk to other sources -- like phones or other applications
-- whatever you like.  Want to learn more?  Joar has built some cool
demo applications you can check
out: <a href="https://github.com/joar/automgtic">automgtic</a>, an
automatic media uploader for your desktop
and <a href="https://github.com/joar/omgmg">OMGMG</a>, an example of
a web application hooking up to the API</a>.</p>

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  <a href="https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin-android">
    <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_android.png"
         alt="MediaGoblin on android!" />
  </a>
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<p>Speaking of phones, there is
<a href="https://gitorious.org/mediagoblin/mediagoblin-android">now
an Android client in the works</a>! Call us, maybe?</p>

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  <a href="http://gobblin.se/u/joar/m/mediagoblin-android-test/">
    <img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.3.2_android_upload-scaled.png"
         alt="Image uploaded to MediaGoblin via android!" />
  </a>
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<p>You can see above an example of
<a href="http://gobblin.se/u/joar/m/mediagoblin-android-test/">an
image uploaded to a MediaGoblin instance from an Android phone</a>.
Pretty cool, huh?</p>

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  <a href="/blog_images/tears_of_steel_collection.png">
    <img src="/blog_images/tears_of_steel_collection-scaled.png"
         alt="Tears of steel collection." />
  </a>
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<p>We've also continued making things nicer for the user at home. It's
now easier than ever to organize your MediaGoblin account. We've built
in collections, so you can group media you like into your own curated
galleries.</p>

<p>The thumbnail display is now a bit cleaner. We also tidied up the HTML
output in general by optimizing the way whitespace gets trimmed.</p>

<p class="centered">
  <img src="/blog_images/new_osm_license.png"
       alt="New OpenStreetMap license dropdown" />
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<p>Geolocation and OpenStreetMap support is now on by default. We've even
tweaked the OpenStreetMap license menu to make it more intuitive.</p>

<p>That's the big features of this release!  You can also read more in
our <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/siteadmin/relnotes.html">release
notes</a>.</p>

<p>Thank you to everyone who helped us write code, raise money, test
features, create swag or offered opinions! We are so glad that we got
a chance to work with you in 2012 and are very much looking forward to
the challenges and achievements that 2013 will bring.  Thanks to
MediaGoblin contributors who worked on this release: Aaron Williamson,
Aeva Ntsc, Christopher Allan Webber, Duncan Paterson, Deb Nicholson,
Elrond of Samba TNG, Jef van Schendel, Joar Wandborg, Emily O'Leary,
Nathan Yergler, Sebastian Spaeth, Kuno Woudt, and Will Kahn-Greene!
And special thanks to Morgan Lemmer-Webber for doing a lot of work to
help us coordinate rewards stuff and
the <a href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> for hosting
and promoting our fundraising campaign!  (By the way... they're
currently running
a <a href="https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom">fundraising
campaign of their own</a>... please donate!)</p>

<p>Want to join the party in 2013?
We'd <a href="/pages/join.html">love to have you</a>!  Visit our IRC channel,
<a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=mediagoblin">#mediagoblin
on freenode.net</a>!  If you want regular updates, join
the <a href="http://lists.mediagoblin.org/listinfo/devel">mailing
list</a> or email us your thoughts and questions at
press@mediagoblin.org</p>

<p>PS: We're still working on sending out the fundraising
rewards. Take a look at
this <a href="http://hipsterpunk.com/u/aeva/m/media-goblins/">first
test of the 3d Gavroche figurine printed on Aeva's LulzBot</a>!</p>

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  <a href="http://hipsterpunk.com/u/aeva/m/media-goblins/">
    <img src="/blog_images/printed_goblins-scaled.png"
         alt="MediaGoblin gavroche prints" />
  </a>
  <br />
  <i>"Media Goblins" photo
    <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA
      3.0</a> by Aeva Ntsc... the actual .blend files and STLs of
      Gavroche also CC BY-SA 3.0 and will be released after the
      rewards go out. ;)</i>
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